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AES - 16 Jun 2009 22:49 GMT

I misspelled a name in a lot of email correspondence (used "Kelley"
instead of "Kelly"), in message bodies, Subject headers, etc Bunch of
sent and received messages containing this misspelling are all in a
single Eudora 6.2.4 mailbox (the kind with an associated .toc file) on
my MacBook.

Anyone think I can get away with opening the mailbox file in a text
editor and doing a global search and replace on misspelled word?

If so, should I do this in the .toc file also? Or just delete it, and
let Eudora rebuild it, after the mail file is corrected?

Thanks . . .

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Peter Ceresole - 16 Jun 2009 22:54 GMT

> Anyone think I can get away with opening the mailbox file in a text
> editor and doing a global search and replace on misspelled word?

Try it on a copy, then see what Eudora makes of it.

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John H Meyers - 16 Jun 2009 23:15 GMT

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> I misspelled a name in a lot of email correspondence (used "Kelley"
> instead of "Kelly"), in message bodies, Subject headers, etc Bunch of
> sent and received messages containing this misspelling are all in a
> single Eudora 6.2.4 mailbox (the kind with an associated .toc file)
> on my MacBook.

> Anyone think I can get away with opening the mailbox file in a text
> editor and doing a global search and replace on misspelled word?

> If so, should I do this in the .toc file also? Or just delete it,
> and let Eudora rebuild it, after the mail file is corrected?

If the number of messages is not prohibitively large,
you might want instead to simply use Eudora's "pencil"
to edit each individual message (or at least those that were incoming),
which will preserve the relationship with the corresponding TOC.

If you change a mailbox file length by even one byte,
outside of the normal functions within Eudora,
you had better discard the TOC file (whether it's
a separate file or in the resource fork of the MBX file),
because the TOC file must have the exact offset of each message
in the MBX file.

Rebuilding a TOC may have undesired effects on any messages
which were outgoing; try an experiment on any new mailbox
into which you copy just a few incoming and outgoing messages.

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Michael Vilain - 17 Jun 2009 05:49 GMT

> I misspelled a name in a lot of email correspondence (used "Kelley"
> instead of "Kelly"), in message bodies, Subject headers, etc Bunch of
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> Thanks . . .

Since Eudora isn't developed any more and might not even work on 10.6, I
left it behind a while back and switched to Macintosh Mail. All these
features work on Mac Mail as it's a Cocoa application rather than
running in Carbon emulation.

Eudora also didn't have any sort of global replace like you're looking
for. So you decide.

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Sander Tekelenburg - 18 Jun 2009 18:11 GMT

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> Anyone think I can get away with opening the mailbox file in a text
> editor and doing a global search and replace on misspelled word?

That should work, yes.

> If so, should I do this in the .toc file also? Or just delete it, and
> let Eudora rebuild it, after the mail file is corrected?

I'd go for the latter.

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Global spelling correction in a Eudora mailbox?